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Multiple Suburban Publics: Rethinking Community Opposition to Consolidation in Sydney
Author(s) -
RUMING KRISTIAN,
HOUSTON DONNA,
AMATI MARCO
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
geographical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.695
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-5871
pISSN - 1745-5863
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2012.00751.x
Subject(s) - typology , opposition (politics) , consolidation (business) , metropolitan area , publics , resistance (ecology) , political science , sociology , geography , archaeology , anthropology , business , politics , law , ecology , accounting , biology
Since the late 1980s urban consolidation has become the dominant strategic planning paradigm across Australian cities; however, sites of densification are increasingly becoming sites of community resistance and conflict. In the context of the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy , this paper explores Ku‐ring‐gai in Sydney's northern suburbs as a site of community resistance centred on opposition to urban consolidation. Moving beyond more traditional constructions of community resistance as a form of NIMBYism, we present here a typology of community resistance groups and explore the complex relationships between these groups, which are used to challenge development. In addition we draw on understanding of urban publics to explore the ways in which these groups attempt to engage and act on behalf of a diverse set of publics operating across scales.